Florida Woman Crowned 2025 American Laughing Champion

NEW YORK — Bobbi Gould, a digital nomad and self-described “laughlete” from Key West, Florida, has been crowned the 2025 American Laughing Champion — and she didn’t just laugh her way to the top. She ROFLED there.

“I’ve spent my life being told I smile too much,” she laughed. “It finally paid off.”

Gould literally rolled on the floor laughing, sealing her victory at the 10th Annual American Laughing Championship — a unique online event where competitors giggle, chortle, and snort their way through a series of outrageous challenges to claim the title of the nation’s most contagious laugh.

A longtime pioneer of joyful living, Gould blends high-vibe humor with social activism. Her latest project, Joy Walking, mixes laughter exercises with intentionally ridiculous public strolls.

This year’s competition tested participants with laugh-offs, snort-offs, and other absurd feats of hilarity. But it was Gould’s unfiltered authenticity, boundless energy, and total physical surrender to laughter that won over the judges — and earned her a spot at the World Laughing Championship on September 20, 2025.

“The World Laughing Championship is shaping up to be the best — and most hilarious — yet,” said Albert Nerenberg, Laughologist and founder of the global laughing championship movement.

For the record: ROFL — “Rolling on the Floor Laughing” — is no longer just an internet meme. It’s a championship-winning strategy.

Gould is on a mission to ignite joy and spark resistance through laughter.

“Laughter isn’t escape,” she said. “It’s resistance. I’m here to Make America Laugh Again.”

Gould and Nerenberg are available for interviews. [email protected]

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